Britain's former financial services watchdog is suing MasterCard for 14 billion pounds ($18.6 billion), alleging the firm slapped excessive charges on millions of transactions.
Some descendants of slaves owned by the Maryland Jesuits and sold to benefit Georgetown University are calling on the college to create a $1 billion foundation to deal with truth and reconciliation.
Masked men armed with guns, knives and stun grenades have attacked a camp of volunteer firefighters who came to southern Russia to help to put out forest fires.
Cypriot officials are baffled by reports that a meteor streaking across the nighttime sky may have exploded overhead with a thunderous bang that some said made the ground shake.
A white former Atlanta-area police officer who shot an unarmed, naked, mentally ill black veteran is asking a judge to dismiss the charges against him.
A Cambodian opposition leader was sentence to five months in jail Friday in the latest faceoff between the government and opposition as political tensions around challenges to Prime Minister Hun Sen's long-standing autocratic rule show no signs of easing.
A Marine recruit committed suicide in March amid a widespread culture of hazing and abuse in his battalion at Parris Island that could lead to punishments for as many as 20 officers and enlisted leaders, the Marine Corps said Thursday.
The Greek government is adamantly opposing the revival of a European Union rule that would allow the forcible return to its territory of asylum-seekers who entered the bloc via Greece — a path followed by more than a million people in the past two years.
The Marine Corps is looking at possible punishments and courts-martial for up to 20 officers and enlisted leaders in the wake of investigations prompted by the suicide of a recruit at its Parris Island training facility in South Carolina.
Senior U.S. officials played down hopes Friday of an imminent cease-fire agreement for Syria as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Geneva for a fourth set of negotiations with his Russian counterpart in the last two weeks.
A Pakistani government statement says Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has extended the stay for Afghan refugees, pushing back a previously announced deadline by three months.
The House is slated to vote on a bipartisan bill that would allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia, setting the stage for a showdown with President Barack Obama on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the attacks.
The Department of Justice reportedly gave immunity to a computer expert who deleted Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails during its investigation into her private email server despite being ordered by Congress to keep them.